Steam-condenser.



E. KOERTING. STEAM CONDENSER.

APPLIUA'TION FILED JULY 30, 1908.

926,1 98. Patented June 29,1909.

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. STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ERNST KoER'rINe OE'PEGLI, ITALY, ASSIGNOR 'ro SGHUTTE & KOERTING COMPANY, or

, PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, A CORPORATION or PENNSYLVANIA.

STEAM-CONDENSER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented. June 29, 1909.

To all whom it may concern.

' Be it known that I, ERNST KOERTING, a subject of the Emperor of Germany, and a resident ofPegli, Italy, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Steam- Condensers, of which the following is a full, true, and concise specification.

This invention is an improvement in steam or vapor condensers and relates to condensers employing a water shower in a vacuum chamber, the object of the invention being to accomplish a rapid and thorough condensationor absorption of all the steam or vapor and. a simultaneous effective removal ofthe permanent gases therein.

The drawings forming a part hereof indicate the principle of operation of my invention, but are not. intended to indicatedetails of mechanical design, which latter may be varied according to the optionof the builder.

Figure 1 represents in central vertical section, parts being shown in elevation, a simple form of apparatus embodying my invention; and Fig. 2 is a similar view of a developed and preferred form.

Referring to Fig. 1, the condensing chamber is formed by a main casing 1 provided with water distributing means atits upper end-and with a Waterreceiver at its base which is connected with the suction-pipe 2 of a porn P of any suitable construction, by means 0' which the condensing water and water of condensation may be discharged andexhaustedfrom the casing. The interior of the condensing chamber is divided into two compartments by means of an upright within the main casing and open at its bottom so that the two compartments thus formed are both in communication with each other and with the water receiver in the base. The steam to be condensed is introduced into one of the compartments, preferably the outer compartment, from an annular steam channel 4 which girdles the main cas- 1 ing and communicates with the interior thereof through a series of openings or inlets 5, said steam inlets being located at the "upper part of the compartment just beneath the entrance of the water thereto, The

artition wall 3, which is preferably a 'cylin' rical casing, located concentrically water distributing means for the outer compartment consists of an annular chamber 6 united to or formed as a part of the main casing in any convenient manner, and which is provided with a number of fine perforations in its bottom wall through which water is showered into the condensing chamber. The central casing 3 opens upwardly through the annular shower-head 6 into an auxiliary casing 7 which is also supplied with a suitable shower-head 8 by which water may be likewise showered through the inner compartment. The water connections of the two shower-heads are' supplied with cocks 9 by which the water may be shut off from one or both as desired. The auxiliary casing 7 provides'an annular space near the entrance of water to the inner compartment into which gases may rise and collect, and an exhaust passage or pipe 10' is connected with such gas collecting space whereby the gases therein are forcibly removed from the condensing chamber.

As shown in Fig. 1 the gas exhaust passage leads directly to the suction pipe 2. n operation, the pump maintains a partial vacuum within the casing and the steam and gases admitted from the steam inlet pass first downwardly in the direction of the shower, by which the greater part of the moisture is condensed and carried off through the water discharge, while any remainder of uncondenscd steam as well as the permanent gases in the chamber, pass beneath the lower edge of the partition wall 3 and move upwardly in the inner compartment against and through the shower of water therein, to the region of the gas exhaust outlet and the gases then remaining are drawn off and discharged through such outlet to the suction of the pump. In rising through the inner compartment the gases encounter water of increasing coolness and leave the apparatus after having been in contact just beneath the shower-head, with the freshest and cold- Letters Patent is: e

other at the bottom, a steam inlet to the steam inlet into one of said compartments centrally disposed with respect to said showspace of the condensing chamber'in tandem tion, thus connected, and acting'to remove plied with showering means at its upper part covering the water outlet and extending! somewhat below the same, as shown.

Referring now to Fig. 2, the construction of, condensing chamber, showering means and water discharging means may be the same asshown in Fig. 1 and above described, but in this form of the invention the means for exhausting the gases from the condensing chamber consist of two or. more steam aspirators connected to the gas-collecting relation so that the second aspirator will assist the action of the first, and the third the second, and so on. The drawing illustrates two aspirators of familiarconstructhe gases and augment the vacuum produced by the pump. The one indicated by 12 has its suction pipe connected with the gas-collecting chamber of the inner compartment and exhausts into a separate condensi'ng receptacle 13 which is supplied with cold water from a pipe 14, the overflow being drawn ofi through a waste-pipe 15 by the pump P. A The second aspirator, designated 16, has its suction connected to the condensing receptacle 13 so that the vacuumin the latter is thereby increased and the effect of the first aspirator-correspondingly magnified, A second condensing receptacle can be provided for the second aspirator, similarly connected, and so on, according to the number employed.

Having described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by United States 1. In a condenser a chamber divided into compartments n1 communication with each upper part of one of said compartments and a gas exhaust passage. leading from the other compartment, and means for passing water {through each compartment of the said cham 2. A condenser comprising a chamber containing a partition wall dividing the same intoinner and outer compartments which communicate at their bottom, and means for showering water through and discharging it from said chamber, in combination with a.

and a gas exhaust passage leading from the other. v

3. A condenser comprising. a casing supand a steam or vapor inlet, arr inner'casing ering means and opening upwardly through the same, a second showering means for said inner casing and means for withdrawinggases from said inner casing.

4. Acondenser comprising a casingjsupplied with a steam or vapor inlet and showering means atits u per part, an inner casing tion pipe of the aforesaid pump.

with a gas collecting and conducting space,

centrally disposer with respect to said showeringmeans', and provided with a second 6. In a condenser the combination with the condensing Ichamber having water dis tributing means and a pump for exhausting the water, of an aspirating apparatus acting to exhaust gas from said chamber and including a discharge receptacle, a waste water pipe connecting said receptacle with the I suction of the pum and means for removin the gases from sai receptacle under reduce pressure. i

7. In a condenser the combination with the condensing chamber, means for passing water through the same, of a steam aspirator acting to exhaust gas from said chamber, a condensing discharge receptacle for said 'aspirator havin a gas collecting space and means for withdrawing the'gases therefrom. 1

8. In a condenser the combination with the condensing chamber and water distributing means therein, of a steam aspirator acting to exhaust gas from said chamber and having a condensing discharge receptacle, 9. pump'for discharging the Wastewater from said receptacle and means for removing the uncondensed gas from said receptacle under reduced pressure.

9. In a condenser the combination with the condensing vacuum chamber and means for passing water therethrough and provided of two or more steam jet aspirators connected with said space in tandem relation to each other and having a condensing receptacle interposed between the exhaust of; one

and the suction of the, other, and. means for withdrawing the water from said receptacle.

10. In a, condenser, a condensing chamber provided with a gas collecting'and conductingspace and water distributing means and awater exhaust pump in combination with two or more steam-jet aspirators connected tosaid space in tandem relation to each other and having a condensing receptacle interposed between the exhaust of one and the suction of the other, and a waste water pipe 125 for said receptacle connected to the'suction of the said water pumps 11. In a condenser a condensing chamber, '5

water distributing means therefor, and a partition wall dividing said chamber into 130 compartments provided; respectively with a name to the specification in the presence of steam or va orinlet and a gas exhaust pastwo subscribing witnesses.

sage, in com ination with a steam aspirator ERNST KOERTING connected to said exhaust passage and hav- 5 ing a condensing discharge receptacle and a Witnesses:

rarefying' means for said discharge receptacle. ANGELO BORAGINA,

In testimony whereof, I have signed my C. A. FERRAN. 

